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Infobox musical artist | name = Will Bernard| image = Will Bernard dba.jpg| caption = Wiil Bernard at the d.b.a. with Stanton Moore|Stanton Moore Trio during New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival|Jazz Fest , New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans 2007.| image_size =| background = solo_singer| origin =| instrument = Guitar| occupation =| years_active =| label = Palmetto| associated_acts = The Will Bernard Band 4tet Motherbug Fully Loaded Stanton Moore|Stanton Moore Trio Hieroglyphics Ensemble| website = http://www.willbernard.com/| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Will Bernard is a guitarist and band leader from the San Francisco Bay Area , now living in Brooklyn, New York . He has led the Will Bernard Band, Will Bernard Trio, Will Bernard 4-tet, and Motherbug.
Bernard's first major touring and recording was with Peter Apfelbaum|Peter Apfelbaum's Hieroglyphics Ensemble. In the mid 1990s he joined guitarists Charlie Hunter and John Schott as T.J. Kirk. The band's name originally "James T. Kirk" tributed James Brown, Thelonious Monk and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.Interview, Guitar Player Magazine , October 2007 Their second release, If Four Was One , received a 1997 Grammy Award nomination. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php? id=2966 Biography Michael Ricci, AllAboutJazz.com Retrieved September 6, 2007 Bernard also received a Grammy Award nomination for his own Party Hats (album)|Party Hats in 2007.
Bernard has played with many musicians including Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, The Coup , Robert Walter's 20th Congress , MG5 (formerly Frequinox), Idris Muhammad , Dr. Lonnie Smith , Zigaboo Modeliste , Groundation and the Stanton Moore|Stanton Moore Trio . Allmusic|class=artist|id=p56218|pure_url=yes Biography Matt Collar, AllMusic.com , Retrieved September 6, 2007 In January 2008 Bernard recorded his second album with the Palmetto label including John Medeski on keyboards, Stanton Moore on drums and Andy Hess on bass which was released as Blue Plate Special (album)|Blue Plate Special . http://www.willbernard.com/ Will Bernard Official Site - news Retrieved September 14, 2008
Selected discography
If Four Was One - T.J. Kirk (1997)
Medicine Hat - Will Bernard Quartet (1998)
Motherbug (2000)
Directions To My House - Will Bernard Trio (2004)
III (Stanton Moore album)|III - Stanton Moore (2006)
Party Hats (album)|Party Hats - Will Bernard (2007)
Sketchy - Wil Blades (2007)
Emphasis& #33; (On Parenthesis) - Stanton Moore (2008)
Night for Day - Bernard Emer Lackner Ferber (2008)
Rockamovya (2008)
Blue Plate Special (album)|Blue Plate Special - Will Bernard (2008)
http://www.willbernard.com/ Will Bernard - official site
http://www.myspace.com/willbernard Will Bernard at MySpace
http://www.rockamovya.com/ Rockamovya - official site
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